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Legendary Pictures and Microsoft Want To Bring Life-Sized Hologram Characters Into Your Living Room

Legendary Pictures want to give fans a more immersive experience when it comes to their popular movie characters. In its partnership with Microsoft, the movie studio is looking to take the technology company’s HoloLens tool to eventually bring life-sized holograms into anyone’s living room. We’ve already seen the capabilities of HoloLens with it’s impressive demo on holoportation and holographic communication. Here we see those same principles slightly updated in a more fun and entertaining way. (more…)

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Students who play online games actually get better academic results

Despite the old stereotypes about video games rotting your brain, a new study provides the latest evidence to the contrary, with the data showing that gaming every day is linked to improvements in academic performance. Research in Australia involving more than 12,000 high school students found that, when it came to Internet usage, students who regularly played online video games scored higher in maths, reading, and science tests than their peers who didn't. (more…)

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why Olympic athletes keep wearing that weird body tape

As the 2016 Summer Olympics get started, there's lots to look forward to, including incredible feats of athleticism and stories about how well the city of Rio is or isn't dealing with the influx of athletes and fans. But if 2008 or 2012 offer any guide, we'll also see athletes' bodies covered in stripes of colourful tape - specifically, something called kinesiology tape or (more commonly) kinesio tape. So what is it, and why is it there? (more…)

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